They will be joining our wonderful veterans, Alibi and Kuro, who continue to wow us with their latest offerings.
Drop by and welcome the newcomers and feel free to put in a request with any of Imagine Chat’s designers.
Design Board: [ http://www.imaginechat.com/forum/index.php?board=301.0 ]

ImagineChat was founded with the goal of not only providing a place of relaxation and entertainment, but to encourage and inspire writers. With that goal in mind, we’re proud to present: The Dead Poet’s Pub- the home of IC’s very own poetry slam.

Each week, participants will receive a theme for writing and each week we will meet twice:

Tuesdays after 9pm ET to share our rough drafts and critique our work and Saturdays after 10pm ET to proudly share our finished work and receive the next week’s theme.

And let’s not forget, just back in January, we added The Imaginarians- a group of courteous, helpful artists who assist all new room controllers with the room creation process- including creating BEAUTIFUL entrances for your rooms!

I’m still playing a little catch up with our news, but this information is so very important.
This is an innovation from our Admin michael who has been turning ImagineChat into a very user-friendly and fun place to be, making all my dreams for the site (and now his as well!) come true!

When Mike started working for us, I had a long laundry list of things I wanted to accomplish, stuff I never thought I’d be able to have happen and that man is MAGIC. He’s got more than half of my requests just done or in the works.

But “My ImagineChat” was Mike’s brainstorm and as we introduced new features (like the BubbleChat and the Member’s Only Back Door into site rooms) it all just fell into his grand scheme: “My ImagineChat”, a customizable space just for members.

“My ImagineChat”- It’s a portal to the site rooms, a place to access your file manager for your webspace, the place where you can edit your profile and change your site password, a link to the pulldown editor for any rooms you run and now: saved codes for use with the site’s quick entryway and…“My Whochat”- a place you can view only your most favorite rooms and who’s in them. (You can even view and link your own private room!)

If you haven’t already, go check it out! It’s fun to use and such a time saver!
THIS is the reason imaginechat.com is a great place to call your home on the net!

THEN my home PC died and I couldn’t find the correct password to get into this thing!

THEN I couldn’t get it to email me the password!

FINALLY I can access this again.

Time for some catch up!

January 16th:
Have you heard about the Imaginarians? They are the courteous, friendly folks at IC that will help you make your chatroom beautiful and guide you through the steps of opening on IC! If you have membership questions or room leader questions or making pulldowns seems too daunting, the Imaginarians are here for you!Contact the Imaginarians!

January 21st:
Congrats to our new site mods! Your service to Imaginechat is invaluable. Our new site wide mods are:

February 1st:
It’s February and imaginechat.com regulars know what that means: The return of SHARE THE LOVE month!

I love February because we get to spread the love around to everyone!

For the THIRD year in a row, February is “Share the Love” month at imaginechat.com.

This month only, we will be offering special goodies to our chatters.

1) imaginechat.com loves: new people!

If you have been a member of imaginechat.com in the past or if you’ve never been a member of imaginechat.com- here’s your chance to find out what it’s like.
Email imaginechat2006@msn.com with “Share The Love” in the subject box and let me know your username for the site (the one you use to log into the rooms in the pop up box) and in 24 hours you will be the proud owner of a three month trial membership at imaginechat.com. This will give you access to our member webspace where you can host avatars & webpages and other simple files.

2) imaginechat.com loves: moving day!

If you have a room on another site and you’d like to move, but you just don’t have the funds: February is the month to do it.
Email imaginechat2006@msn.com with “Share The Love” in the subject box and let me know your username for the site (the one you use to log into the rooms in the pop up box) and the name of the room you will be moving and you will receive a free three month trial membership at imaginechat.com! Upload your room’s entrance pages & information into your new memberspace and post your request to the support board. Give us 24 hours and we’ll get you settled in to your new home at imaginechat.com including moderator rights to your room!

3) imaginechat.com loves: existing members!

If you are a current member of imaginechat.com, if you renew your membership this month- you get another membership to give to a sweetie or to keep for free! Renew for a year, get another year (of equal value) free! Share the love we have for you with yourself or a friend! Renew as usual and you will be emailed requesting the name of your friend!

This month, there’s a lot of love to go around! Get some and keep your eyes open for more!

February 8th:

Howdy folks! Daz here with fun news about Valentine’s Day at imaginechat.com! Do you have a special someone, a secret crush, or a really great friend? Now is your chance to send them a Cupid-Gram, delivered by IC’s very own Cupids! Check out the messageboard for more information and share some love!Celebrate Valentine’s Day at ImagineChat

February 9th:

Hey, ya’ll! It’s Holiday, with some more V-day news! Got a character that makes the girls and/or boys sigh? Had your eye on a certain someone character for a while? Well, check out our first annual Win a Date at Imagine Chat Bachelor/Bachelorette Auction! All bid proceeds go toward a special members’ only auction in March, and winners get a special roleplay date with their crush!Win a Date at ImagineChat!

Since it’s opening in 2006, imaginechat.com has required registration to use the chatrooms. It is free, easy and allows you to easily become a member later.

There have been some technical difficulties with people receiving their registration emails- either through their ISP blocking our emails, the free email addresses blocking us or simple typos. For whatever reasons, sometimes people don’t get their response in a timely fashion. So, in an effort to open our doors all the more widely, I am removing the registration requirement for all public and personal rooms (save a few whose room owners were not comfortable with the idea). Private rooms will still require registration to enter (as well as the member’s password…).

Please be sure and let all of your friends know about this change and invite them to come in hassle- free and observe and try us out!

Well, after Jim’s visit, I was inspired by one of the rejected titles he had for “Summer Knight” (book one of the Dresden Files)- “Semi-Automagic”. The room is now up. I am slowly working on character information, storyline and room rules.

The room is set in Edinburgh, in a bar called “Arthur’s Seat” (after the local volcano).

The time is after Ghost Story with Harry presumed dead and spoken of as a legend in wizarding circles.

No cannon characters may be played or even referenced as friends or relatives. You can be “twice removed” (a distant cousin or friend of a friend) of them, but not at all to Harry or the main characters.

The Nevernever sub room will be available shortly. Any wizard wanting to go into or through will have to use this room and there will be dice rolls to guide you through.

On the message board, there is a list of character types that are available for play.

The “kids” (my chatters) asked me to send on the few questions you didn’t have time to answer the other night.

From Nyo: My characters are often rattling around in my head, some violent, some sweet, some playful – that I often feel like a bio-engineered sanitarium.From myyrdneopia: Does Ivy know about the Oblivion War?

JIM:
Heh.

Ivy knows about /all/ the Wars.

From Julian: Okay so I have to know, simply because he’s cool and seems like an average Joe who puts on his jeans one leg at a time… is he… a Doctor Who fan?

JIM:

My enjoyment of Doctor Who was somewhat soured by the fact that I first watched it when it came to SyFy. I really dug Chris Eccleston as the Doctor and I just couldn’t get behind Barnabus Crouch Jr as the Doctor, so the series as a whole lost momentum for me. I keep meaning to pick up the original series on DVD and watch it. I’m far more likely to do that than I am to read through my Hemingway again. Smiley

From Aspen (Elyne): Do you have control over naming the title of your books or do the publishers select them?

JIM:

I name the books, but the publishers have veto power. They don’t pick a new name, but they’ll tell me if one of them is unacceptable.

From !Wrath!: Would you ever consider producing or something for Supernatural?

JIM:

Not if they turn Cas into a permanent villain jerky-jerk. The jerks. Smiley

But I kinda already have a more than full-time job. It’d be hard to go do another one and still keep writing. I must say, though, that I really love a lot of the storytelling they’ve done. I’m very down with Crowley as a villain. He’s got style. Smiley

From Ali: If you could be a character from your book, and not Harry, who would it be and why?

From Holiday: do you have a musical muse? or certain songs/artists that relate to certain characters?

JIM:

I go with specific songs that inspire me for specific stories and characters and situations. I usually round up a soundtrack of songs for any given novel. Included on the upcoming Cold Days soundtrack: Help is On the Way, by Rise Against, Monster, by Skillet, 45 by Shinedown, and Super Villain by Powerman 5000.

From Dave: “I got one more question, this being the most important to me. If there is no options for it yet, can I do the screenplay for The Dresden Files?”

JIM:

I currently hold all the rights. Feel free to get in touch with my agent!

From DarthMax: Is there any future possibilities of exploring TV series about Dresden again or maybe a movie?

JIM:

I’m open to possibilities! I think there is no chance of any further involvement with SyFy or a resurrection of the series, though. That’s kinda done.